Are you able to reproduce it? It's been closed a number of times because nobody who sees it can ever reproduce it more than once. My working theory is that it's a CMake bug.

This is my previous summary of the issue: #73881 (comment)

Are you able to reproduce it? It's been closed a number of times because nobody who sees it can ever reproduce it more than once. My working theory is that it's a CMake bug.

I deleted that project, created a new one and the permissions problem didn't show up again. I'm not sure what is being cached where that causes it to behave differently.

The problem with this bug is that it affects first time user experience which isn't good.

The issue was happening consistently for me, I managed to fix the issue by doing the following in linux/CMakeLists.txt

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
if(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
  set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)
endif()

to

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)

More info can be found in the linked issue above.

I ran into this issue with a fresh manual install of flutter 3.10.5 on void linux when creating a new project without all of the required build dependencies installed (no cmake, ninja, gtk+) and then attempting a build which fails, then installing all the dependencies. The project was broken at this point, but creating a new project even after removing all the dependencies and trying to reproduce the issue didn't result in a repro.

I run the command: flutter run -d linux, and got error:

Launching lib/main.dart on Linux in debug mode...
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:66 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  "/media/xxx/flutter/xxx/build/linux/x64/debug/intermediates_do_not_run/xxx"
  to "/usr/local/xxx": Permission denied.


Building Linux application...                                           
Exception: Build process failed

Flutter version is: 3.16.3.

After using @ZimboPro 's method, it works:

The issue was happening consistently for me, I managed to fix the issue by doing the following in linux/CMakeLists.txt

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
if(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
  set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)
endif()

to

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)

More info can be found in the linked issue above.

The issue was happening consistently for me, I managed to fix the issue by doing the following in linux/CMakeLists.txt

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
if(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
  set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)
endif()

to

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)

More info can be found in the linked issue above.

That worked for me, thx

Environment

OS: Fedora Linux 38 (Sway) x86_64
Kernel: 6.7.9-100.fc38.x86_64

Flutter

Flutter 3.19.2 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision 7482962148 (2 settimane fa) • 2024-02-27 16:51:22 -0500
Engine • revision 04817c99c9
Tools • Dart 3.3.0 • DevTools 2.31.1

I run flutter clean and it fixed the error

I had the same issue, but like @shassard suggests, it was most likely caused by attempting to build without having all system dependencies met.

Installing dependencies and doing flutter clean solved the issue for me.

I seem to have found a possible reason. I am using Flutter version 3.22.3 to build a project that depends on media_kit. On Ubuntu, if the libmpv-dev dependency is not installed in advance, it will give an error: CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find ALSA (missing: ALSA_LIBRARY ALSA_INCLUDE_DIR). After I installed libmpv-dev, running flutter build linux triggered this problem: Permission denied to "/usr/local/counter". I have to run flutter clean and then flutter build linux to resolve it.

I had the same issue today on a new Debian setup. First I did the build with a missing lib (libgtk-3-dev) and after adding the lib and rebuild I had the issue mentioned in this topic:

user@Debian:~/Development/my_app$ flutter run -d Linux
Launching lib/main.dart on Linux in debug mode...
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:66 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  "/home/user/Development/my_app/build/linux/x64/debug/intermediates_do_not_run/my_app"
  to "/usr/local/my_app": Permission denied.


Building Linux application...                                           
Error: Build process failed

After doing flutter clean I could compile this project without errors and as expected.

P.S. [✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.29.3, on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 6.1.0-34-cloud-amd64, locale en_US.UTF-8)

The issue was happening consistently for me, I managed to fix the issue by doing the following in linux/CMakeLists.txt

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
if(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX_INITIALIZED_TO_DEFAULT)
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)
endif()
to

set(BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle")
set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${BUILD_BUNDLE_DIR}" CACHE PATH "..." FORCE)
More info can be found in the linked issue above.

worked for me. thanks